AI-based plagiarism detectors: Plagiarism fighters or makers?

Abstract

Plagiarism damages the biomedical academic publication domain. Artificial intelligence (AI) is a rising hope in academic plagiarism hunting. However, new AI-based tools are available online to assist with plagiarising! This article presents plagiarism throughout history, especially in medicine, and the promises of AI to detect a new type of plagiarism, namely Aigiarism. The danger of the above-mentioned AI-based services to help in paraphrasing copied texts is also highlighted, including some proposed solutions.